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1821 Decr 28

Codification Proposal.

?.5 Admission Universal

Aptitude and Inaptitude

Chart of the course of

Misrule

That the effect of this /such/ system of misrule may be the more clearly understood, and a perception of it brought home as it were to the feelings of every individual, another desirable operation would have been /is/, the giving a delineation of the sinister course which in pursuance /for the advancement/ /by the pursuit/ of his own particular and sinister interest each individual or class of persons will be led to pursue:- the course that in the exercise of his power and influence the Monarch would be led to pursue, and the sacrifices which he would be led to make of the universal to his own particular and sinister interest during his progress in that course: the like in regard to every one of the numerous classes and sub-classes into which in every country the aristocracy of the country is divided: in a word the direction taken by misrule in these several situations for the attainment of the several sinister ends - for the consummation of its share in the sinister sacrifice. the sinister sacrifice made which is as much as to say /in other words/ the several evils physical, moral and intellectual produced.

An analysis of this sort has /was/ accordingly been commenced /undertaken/ and nearly finished. But already and before it was compleated the space occupied by it was found to be such, as to oppose a peremptory bar to its admission in this place. In connection with this paper /little work/ with the present paper Should it ever see the light it must be in the form of an Appendix.

Meantime what may be sufficient to warrant /afford a completely sufficient warrant for/ the practical measure he proposed, is this undeniable truth: namely that in the situation in question as well as in every other every man being by the constitution of his nature led to pursue his own individual interest in preference to and at the expence of all other interests put together no arrangement by which this universal propensity can be in any degree counteracted can justly be regarded as misapplied or needless and superfluous.